Grade 6 English Language Arts - Learning Experiences

TUSC - Totally Unusual Speaking Club

• TUSC is a highly structured activity that allows all students in a class to learn and practise communication skills. At a chosen time in each school cycle, all students gather to talk and listen. Each student has a special role. Over a period of weeks, students rotate through all of the essential roles and participate in many of the optional roles.
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Silverwing in Review (novel)

• Students (in groups of 4-6) collaborate to build a digital story summarizing the novel entitled, Silverwing. They create artistic sketches pertaining to the novel and prepare summary narratives to guide the story along with pictures.
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Remembrance Day Photo Story

• Students created posters based on what Remembrance Day means to them and provide a short audio clip of what Remembrance Day means to them.
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Online Journals using Blogs

• Students keep an online journal of important learning experiences, extracurricular activities and personal experiences in order to develop ELA writing and reflection skills and typing skills.
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